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    Very poor battery times.

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by sfrrsman64, Feb 5, 2011.

  1. sfrrsman64

    sfrrsman64 Notebook Consultant

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    I am at a friends house as i post this right now, and i wanted to show him how nicely this computer runs GTA4 (on low settings that is, lol) and we were playing for maybe an hour give or take, and from fully charged my laptop is now at about 20%, if not less, and i had to plug it in. It was on high performance, but the laptop has a very poor battery life for the gaming. Why? I would have thought at the least to get 2 hours on high performance gaming.

    Any help is appreciated.
     
    sfrrsman64, Feb 5, 2011
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  2. Kevinmcg

    Kevinmcg Notebook Deity

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    2 Hours on the R1, the i7 uses 70% more power. 17W opposed to 10W.
     
    Kevinmcg, Feb 5, 2011
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  3. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    gaming on any system under battery power is going to be a vacuum. Battery life is sucked away into the great beyond.

    ;)
     
    BatBoy, Feb 5, 2011
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    tassadar898 Notebook Evangelist

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    i7 is 18W but that includes the IGP with it. the su7300 is 10w but does not include the IGP. however because the way optimus works the c2d just uses the 335m + C2Duo and not the IGP whereas the R2 users when they play games use the 335m + i5/i7 + the IGP built in.
     
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  5. Benchmade 42

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    The awesome battery life of this portable machine is when the integrated gpu is used (that's why you have the manual switching on R1 and Optimus on R2), once you start using the nvidia card unplugged then you can kiss that battery life goodbye
     
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    Mr_DoughBoy Notebook Geek

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    Hmm cant comment on the R2 but on the R1 I get around 3 hours while gaming on the "Dedicated" nvidia option while playing COD:BO.

    Looking through the various posts it looks like the R2 has 1-1.5 hours less of "battery" life depending on the settings you use so 2 hours sounds about right for R2.
     
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  7. sfrrsman64

    sfrrsman64 Notebook Consultant

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    lol unhelpful but i laughed. :) love you longtime batboy!

    Thanks guys for the help
     
    sfrrsman64, Feb 7, 2011
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